The horror masters insatiable desire to tell stories has given the modern world some of its most. Bill is an irrepressible character who talks constantly and thinks of himself as an idea man. This is not king s first time using hordes of rats in a story. This list will take you through all of stephen king s short story collections, from the 1978 night shift to his most recent 2015 collection, the bazaar of bad dreams. This week, he tackles night shift, king s first compilation of. Best night shift quotes selected by thousands of our users. Stephen king has over 50 feature films based on his writings. Download stephen king four complete novels carrie salems lot the shining night shift ebook online. Singleton, written by john esposito, starring david andrews, stephen macht, kelly wolf, and brad dourif, and based on the short story of the same name by stephen king which was. A definitive ranking of every stephen king short story.
His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour complains about the loss of her pimp. Night shift received the balrog award for best collection, and in 1979 it was nominated as best collection for the locus award and the world fantasy award. The sadistic mill foreman stephen macht has chosen a. Richard dick morrison, a middleaged smoker, is at john f. The short story trucks published in 1978 and featured in the collection night shift. Kennedy international airport when he runs into jimmy mccann, his old college roommate and ad agency coworker. From horror master stephen king comes his most terrorfilled tale yet. A smoker wants to quit smoking, and goes to a company called quitters inc, which cures smoking through threats of violence. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading night shift.
I say curiously because its not a very tasteful film, let alone even a good. Children of the corn movie cats eye movie graveyard shift movie the mangler movie maximum overdrive movie. The woman in the room, the boogeyman, and disciples of the crow. Based loosely on stephen king s short story quitters, inc. Stephen king has brought together nineteen of his most unsettling short piecesbizarre tales of dark doing and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unearthly forms. In 1980, night shift received the balrog award for best collection, and in 1979 it was nominated as best collection for the locus award and the world fantasy award. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. This is a cheesy knock off of the children of the corn. While no story collection is flawless not even one of stephen king s, its more unified in tone, and contains more heavy hitters, than any other horror collection i can name, and it handles both the gothic pulp and gore a steadier hand than night shift skeleton crew hails from a bit later in king s career1985. Admittedly, they read better you can find them both in the night shift collection because a lot has to do with what the characters are thinking, which you cant really do on screen. Mccann, who had been a heavy smoker in college, credits a firm. Based on king s short story, the film is set a moldering old textile mill, where john hall david andrews is hired to clean the place out. The basement work crew start falling prey to a giant rat monster that lurks underground.
In 1980, night shift received the balrog award for best collection, and in. Stephen kings graveyard shift 1990 rotten tomatoes. Chuck starts his first night shift and has to train a new partner. Stephen king s collection of short stories night shift contains this gruesome little entry. The glorious b movie graveyard shift is easily one of the most fun stephen king films ever made. The prime examples being children of the corn and sometimes they come back. So starts stephen king s first collection of short stories, night shift. Stephen king on the outsider and where he gets his story. Stephen king i have seen a list of 36 titles created 24 sep 2018 stephen king a list of 47 titles. Night shift was stephen kings first short story collection, released way back in 1978 and it contains quite a lot of his more popular short stories that ended up becoming movies. Stephen king uberfan james smythe is rereading the works of the horror genius in chronological order.
The giant monstrous bat living in the decrepit and condemned building hunted down and ate various humans throughout the early 90s film graveyard shift. He is continually making notes to himself on his portable tape recorder, though most of his ideas are silly or impractical. But beyond the feature films are hundreds of studentmade short films based on king s short stories, completely authorized by the author. Three of the stories from night shift were made into the movie cats eye but the stories are far superior and all. The 10 best movies based on stephen king books according. Its a real shame more people dont know about it, much less list it among their favorite. Graveyard shift is adapted from stephen kings short story of the same. This one has many good stories in it some of my favorites. Night shift is the first collection of short stories by stephen king, first published in 1978. Night shift is the first book of short stories of stephen king. Dear bones, how good it was to step into the cold, draughty hall here at chapelwaite, every bone in an ache from that abominable coach, in need of instant relief from my distended bladderand to see a letter addressed in your own inimitable scrawl propped on the obscene little cherrywood table beside the door.
This is a bad movie even if i was basing it solely on 80s standards. Casting was okay but the acting was was overdone and the movie was very boring. The boogeyman is a short story by stephen king, first published in the march 1973 issue of the magazine cavalier, and later collected in king s 1978 collection night shift contents 1 plot summary. Night surf is a postapocalyptic short story by stephen king, first published in the spring 1969 issue of ubris magazine, and later collected in a heavily revised version in king s 1978 collection night shift. Singleton, written by john esposito, starring david andrews, stephen macht, kelly wolf, and brad dourif, and based on the short story of the same name by stephen king which was first published in the 1970 issue of cavalier magazine, and later collected in kings 1978 collection night shift.
The novella graveyard shift, included in 1978 short story collection night shift and adapted to a movie in 1990, was based around a textile worker on the titular graveyard shift, having to deal with hordes of rats. Excursions into horror is the fifth book published by stephen king, and his first collection of short stories. Battleground is a fantasy short story by american writer stephen king, first published in the september 1972 issue of cavalier magazine, and later collected in kings 1978 collection night shift. The first two parts quitters incorporated and the ledge are well done adaptations of two short stories that are amongst stephen king s best writing. I started in tv movies and then had success in my move to features with night shift and splash. But seen through the lens of stephen king movies, its an interesting interpretation. The book was released by doubleday in february of 1978. Just wondering what peoples favourite movie from night shift stories were saying as most of them got made into movies. When an abandoned textile mill is reopened, several employees meet mysterious deaths. A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the one great idea for success. Children of the corn you have probably heard of that in film form, is a great story. For those two reasons, i would put skeleton crew above night shift. So if you want a taste of king s horror but dont have time to sit down and read a whole novel, weve got you covered.
The former big little lies and divergent star shares her view on acting with. A textile mill is shut down due to an infestation of rats, which must be cleared out before business can. Romero and features twelve chilling tales told over six, hourlong episodes. Night shift is by far king s finest short story collection and closest to pure horror rather than the scifi influenced selection of skeleton crew or the ray bradbury flavours of nightmares and dreamscapes. Maximum overdrive is famous, or perhaps infamous, for being the only film that stephen king. Executive produced by showrunner greg nicotero the walking dead, creepshow is based on the iconic 1982 movie written by stephen king and directed by george a. Stephen kings 10 most underrated movies screenrant. Bland david andrews is a quiet hunk drifter who starts the late shift at a grimy maine textile mill, headed over by a sadistic sleazeball boss stephen macht. Stephen kings graveyard shift is curiously one of my favourite adaptations of his work.
From telekinetic teenagers to monstrous creatures, king has written about nearly every fear and phobia known to humanity. I hate to say it but this movie was just plain bad. Real rats are all over the place too, to clean up the bodies. Graveyard shift is a 1990 american horror film directed by ralph s.
Many of kings most famous short stories were included in this collection. A crew of night workers, including collegeeducated drifter, john hall david andrews and castle rock tomboy jane wisconsky kelly wolf is hired by the bachman mill to clean out the basement of a longabandoned textile. Here we have some of his best stories including strawberry spring, the ledge, graveyard shift and i know what you need. These two movies complete my collection of every available stephen king movie.
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